Viewing The Printer Status With Rsh And Ftp; Copying Information To A File - Gestetner P7245 Hardware Manual

Viewing the Printer Status with rsh and ftp

Use the rsh or ftp command to display printer status or information about print
jobs using specified parameters.
You can use these commands for BSD and System V UNIX.
If your workstation is HP-UX, use the remsh command instead of rsh.
• rsh
% rsh host_name parameter
• ftp
% ftp host_name
User user_name
password:
ftp> get parameter -
Parameters that can be used with rsh, rcp and ftp :
Parameter
stat
info
prnlog
syslog
Note
❒ Leave the user name and password blank, and then press the {RETURN} ( {EN-
TER} ) key.
❒ "-" indicates standard output. Display will be displayed on screen if standard
output has not been specified.

Copying Information to a File

Use the rcp or ftp command to copy information about specified parameters to a file.
You can use these commands for BSD and System V UNIX.
Important
❒ The same parameters are used as those above.
• rcp
% rcp host_name:parameter file_name
• ftp
% ftp host_name
User: user_name
password:
ftp> get parameter file_name
Note
❒ Leave the user name and password blank, and then press the {RETURN} ( {EN-
TER} ) key.
Information returned
Status of the printer.
Information about print jobs.
Information about the paper tray, output tray and printer language.
Record of the last 10 jobs printed.
Record of messages about the network interface board.
Printer Status
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